The Management of School Indiscipline in Elementary School Historical Review and Current Reality

Abstract

This work is a summary of the postgraduate thesis carried out at the Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace, so as to explore the issue of school indiscipline from both theoretical and empirical terms. In previous years, inappropriate behaviors were dealt with severely painful means, but at present the above methods have been banned and replaced with other interventionist actions, each of which has a different degree of efficacy to the unruly child. Lately, however, greater emphasis is given on preventing incidents of disobedience, a project that depends on various factors. Finally, research was conducted on a sample of 192 primary school teachers in the prefecture of Serres, whose answers were correlated with the variable “gender”.